Boat of the Show?

Originally posted by G.R.F. Er the same as what's wrong with a wooden automobile? Fine in it's day, but the worlds moved on.

Find me a plastic boat as good looking as this. (OK, so
Carl makes composite plastic/veneer boats, but
wow, they're pretty.)

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Go here:
http://www.carldouglas.co.uk/images/gallery/rosewood.jpg

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Originally posted by G.R.F. Wood is not good, wood is a sign you're well overdue a trip to Switzerland..

And who died and made you king?

Grumpf, I know it will be a futile task to try and tell you this but wood has a whole different raison d'etre.

Wood is about having put your boat together, mostly by yourself, and actully enjoying putting something of yourself into it, more than just bimbling.  Wood is combining two hobbies - wanting to sail, but also wanting to make something lovely that you can take pride in for how it looks, as well as for how it sails (which is mostly down to what you have done yourself, not some other bloke)

Wood is really about combining two hobbies - sailing and boat building, which I reckon gives you the best of both worlds.

I know you'll tell me I'm deluded and need the men in white coats, but you won't be the first, besides, they carried me off long ago and I've never looked back!

WIng wang your deluded..

Forgetting for a moment the driving skills of bearded sandal wearing
fireflyers, it's bad enough fifties boat kits are still being promoted as
modern sailing, but for grown men to be whiling away their lives, hand,
yes hand riveting, what? There must be thousands of the little bits of
copper when there are perfectly good glues these days, is well just
impossible for the modern mind to comprehend..

Then again I guess it's a bit like basket weaving, you have to give them
something to do when they're out of the jacket and under medication..

It takes all types..

And you do see them all at that show..

Dignitas should definitely take a stand.

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